Social Development Direct Limited

RIVA is a 3.5-year programme that will empower women, girls, and excluded groups in Nepal to understand and claim their Rights individually and collectively, participate in Inclusive policymaking and implementation, and have a stronger Voice and Agency at both national and local levels to advance Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI). RIVA will strengthen the capacities of diverse and intersecting Women Rights Organisations (WROs) and Civil Society Organisation’s (CSOs) through the provision of flexible, multi-year funding and catalytic enabling grants. It will help foster an enabling environment in Nepal, increasing collectivisation and exchange between organisations to support movement building and social norm change across BEK three priority provinces. RIVA will provide strategic demand-led TA to mainstream GEDSI effectively across BEK’s portfolio and bring about GEDSI transformative initiatives.The interconnected core components of RIVA are:Component A: Support to WROs and feminist movement building for social norms change (implemented through a multilateral organisation)Component B: Catalytic Grant Management and Technical Assistance Facility (covered by this activity)Component C: Programme Funded Post (PFP) - UKB Social Development Advisor (SDA)

Establish partnerships with local & central government, communities and businesses to support the (i) districts effected by the Earthquake to “build back better” including leading to more resilient (including climate resilient) infrastructure and institutions; (ii) the most vulnerable recover their livelihoods and assets; and (iii) the Government of Nepal to plan for and manage the response to the earthquake. It is essential the gender and social inclusion issues are covered explicitly in all output areas and activities undertaken through the programme.

DFID staff and country offices and other UK government departments Organisation, individuals and academics working on or interested in the eradication of VAWG

SDDirect has been commissioned to deliver dedicated and specialist support to three DFID country offices (Nigeria, Rwanda and Nepal) and the DFID Safeguarding Unit (SGU) in three phases. They include; 1) a diagnostic phase to understand the needs of each country office and develop an action plan to address these; 2) a support phase in which remote and in-country support is provided to country office staff to support the implementation of the action plan, and 3) a learning phase where lessons learned are gathered and analysed and shared in the form of short guidance or information notes for the SGU. In order to facilitate open and constructive conversations with country offices on their approach to safeguarding on SEAH, SDDirect will adapt and pilot their Safeguarding Diagnostic1 tool with senior management and safeguarding leads in three DFID country offices. The diagnostic is a platform-based digital tool developed to help leaders of organisations working in the international development sector to feel confident that they have robust systems, processes and resources in place to safeguard against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment: in the workplace, in their programmes and in their partnerships. Senior SDDirect SEAH facilitators will lead this process to create a safe space for senior management to discuss issues around SEAH and identify a roadmap to strengthening their approach. Using the diagnostic tool will allow SDDirect to explore sensitive issues beyond those of working with partners to co-develop a useful action plan which addresses the key issues at hand. SDDirect will embed a knowledge and learning approach across our work to ensure all lessons and good practice are captured to inform the development of the guidance/information notes outlined in the ToR.